Quotes about music
musician stills communicators
I suppose I would still be a communicator, maybe a musician. Conrad Hall
music beautiful bread
Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead. Conrad Aiken
music enchantment concerts
[At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment.
musical talent musical-talent
I have absolutely no musical talent of my own! Danny Strong
musical might stuff
I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised on film. My musical experience is all via film, it's not from classical music. Danny Elfman
music numbers advantage
But right now we have an advantage of being the number one in music. Daniel Ek
musical fans bigs
I'm not actually a big musical fan. Daniel Day-Lewis
music reading imagination
How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score, tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes over the massed strings will sound? Daniel Dennett
music complaining strain
In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain. Alexander Pope
music church doctrine
As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
music dance light
Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
music warrior fire
By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.
music pain grief
Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please; Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
music church vowels
As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.
musical development frank
My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died. Alex Trebek
music player yield
...And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield... Don McLean
music people american-pie
People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.
music levels come-up
I expect the audience to come up to my level. Don Ellis
music thinking artist
To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel not the way others think you should feel.
music musician martyr
Oh, I'm a martyr to music. Dylan Thomas
music peace military
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. Dwight D. Eisenhower
music tired people
Comedy is like music; it builds on itself. Once someone comes up with a theory or a different way of doing things, people start to mimic it on some level. That's why you go back to the guys you loved in the 80s... and it just seems tired now, because it was all foundation. Doug Stanhope
music humans universe
Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe. Douglas Adams
music song thinking
I think the best music videos are the ones that have nothing to do with the song. Those are all my favorites. Donald Glover
music kissing mind
When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don't mind, but he has it in his back pocket. Don Rickles
music-love i-love-music
I love music so much; I've always played. Creed Bratton
music space accents
Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes. Claude Debussy
music clouds silence
He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the waves-subleties which none before him had been capable of suggesting.
music reason no-reason
If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing.
music art air
There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth, an open-air art boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art.
music character mean
Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by few, and that it alone among all the languages unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable - these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods. Claude Levi-Strauss
music spring fall
The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.
music eye body
Juanita found herself at Old Jeemy's radio station in a room she could have sworn was a laboratory where creatures with antennas in their heads, knobs for eyes, jagged arms, and dangly legs conducted experiments on the bodies of dead vocalists. Dan Jenkins